resume

long story short

data scientist and architect for artificial intelligence-infused systems at Microsoft with extensive hands-on experience ranging from envisioning and scoping use cases to data analysis, machine learning model development, and production deployment.

professional experience

2018/10 - today
delivery data scientist / architect for ai systems; microsoft, berlin (germany)

part of consulting services working with strategic enterprise customers

  • scoped and developed multiple artificial intelligence-infused systems and tools, focused on machine learning and software engineering
  • programmatic drive of intellectual property re-use across the company
  • speaker at worldwide developer community and business events
  • created data science demos (voice bots, support ticket classification, image recognition) which helped to generate over three million dollars in revenue
  • joined microsoft via the international “aspire” fast-track program that places fresh graduates in senior positions and leadership trainings across the world

projects

  • co-developed python-based end-to-end solution verseagility for custom natural language processing tasks including classification, named entity recognition, question-answering, summarization and machine reading comprehension. The toolkit helped to reduce implementation efforts to reach go-live stage by 60% within multiple customer engagements
  • Developed custom, voice-based post-processing for German car license plates using named entity recognition within in a large-scale voice bot solution (1.000.000 calls per year, recognition score of > 90%)
  • Implemented training data generator for natural language understanding units to enhance recognition quality in specific domains
  • Developed solution accelerator glue for language-based use cases with azure cognitive services, enabling customers and developers to conduct end-to-end batch testing of interconnected services and models
  • Co-created open source data labeling tool uplabel, including active learning feature and labeler performance metrics to iteratively enhance data label quality for natural language processing use cases
other than that, i used to work as …
  • freelance web developer
  • working student @ kpmg (forensic data analytics)
  • working student @ aperto (an ibm company) (content management)

education

2015 - 2018
master of science - information systems & data science; humboldt-university of berlin (germany)
  • areas of study: data science and machine learning, human-computer-interaction, customer analytics and insights
  • master thesis: topic-oriented customer sentiment detection based of textual product reviews
2017
semester abroad; unversity of social sciences and humanities, hanoi (việt nam)
  • areas of study: sociology, statistics, history
  • conducted group research project on lgbt-acceptance in vietnam, including a survey for data collection and statistical analysis using r
2011 - 2014
bachelor of science - information systems; baden-wuerremberg cooperative state university, stuttgart (germany)
  • dual studies with practical experience at deutsche rentenversicherung baden-wuerttemberg (german national pension fund)
  • areas of study: application management, database systems
  • bachelor thesis: conception of a high-availability monitoring system solution using the example of nagios

awards & achievements

2021/06
microsoft machine learning, ai and data science conference (mlads); speaker at global event in redmond (wa, us)
  • co-led tutorial session on privacy-preserving analytics and machine learning with differential privacy, covering microsoft’s project smartnoise
2020/06
microsoft machine learning, ai and data science conference (mlads); speaker at global event in redmond (wa, us)
  • led and moderated discussion about the co-developed, python-based toolkit verseagility for end-to-end natural language processing tasks and presented typical customer scenarios in this field
2019/11
microsoft transformation award winner
  • led a social impact initiative which aims to make seniors feel more ready and included in an increasingly digital world
  • provided seniors with hands-on practice with smartphones and computers
  • established as recurring annual event
2019/06
microsoft machine learning, ai and data science conference (mlads); speaker at global event in redmond (wa, us)
  • conducted practical lab and poster session about the tool uplabel and field insights on data labeling tasks
2019/07
microsoft transformation award winner
  • technical lead of organization team for a company-wide hackathon
  • included 38 hackathon cases, engaging 1,500 employees and 130 customers

social activities

2017 - 2018
humboldt-university of berlin; buddy for incoming, international exchange students
2017 - 2018
aiesec in germany; voluntary member, responsible for marketing and compliance-related topics
2017 - 2017
german language teacher in việt nam; voluntary language tutor for a visually impaired student
2013 - today
snkrgks sneakerblog; founder and owner of a sneaker culture weblog

skills & stuff

programming
proficient:
  • python, r, sql

familiar:

  • html/css, react, typescript, unix
methods / platforms/ tools
  • azure, ci/cd, devops, google cloud platform, docker, git, infrastructure as code, kubernetes, nosql, pytorch, spark, tensorflow, transformers
certifications
  • microsoft azure data scientist (dp-100)
  • microsoft azure developer (az-204)
  • microsoft azure ai engineer (ai-100)
  • microsoft azure ai fundamentals (ai-900)
  • microsoft azure data fundamentals (dp-900)
  • professional scrum master i (psm i)
languages
  • german (native)
  • english (c2)
  • french (b1)
  • spanish (just started :))